The real MVPs are websites not needing a cookie banner because they only use required cookies for which you dont need a banner.
They still have to inform you, right? Like with some banner at the edge of the page telling that they use cookies, just no need for a popup asking you to accept or decline.
Just FYI - it’s mandatory to have a button like that next to the ‘Accept all’.
Every site that doesn’t do it should be reported.
To where?
Straight to internet headquarters of course.
The serious answer is to whatever your country’s internet regulation agency is (assuming your in the EU, else you’re out of luck). So for example, in France that would be the CNIL, in Germany it’s the BfDI, etc.
Just FYI Germany likes to make things more difficult, so with federation every sub-area is separated in many aspects and has own agencies for different things…
BfDI is only responsible for health and internet-provider institutions (and a few more).
Otherwise you can send it to the one where the company is located at, or always where you are located at. (they will forward it, but that can take a few months, so better to submit where it has to go).
The police
If that’s so it’s incredibly poorly enforced to the point where complaining is unlikely to have any effect at all. Most Sites have a button that leads To a secondary menu where cookie preferences can be set. Perhaps this meets the mandate you speak of? It’s a much more common setup.
Or just sites that don’t need a consent popup because they don’t sell your shit.
In Firefox 120+ about:config -> cookiebanners.service.mode 2 (from 0)
No addons required.
Does this accept them?
This seems to be the config:
cookiebanners.service.mode = 1 (reject all) or 2 (reject all or fall back to accept all).So on 2 it would reject all, and if not possible, accept all.
Thanks for that! Much clearer now
So it’s about balance annoyance and privacy again.
First i was a bit confused, but i quickly found a site i use regular which needs you to accept the cookies or buy premium.
There’s where stuff like Cookie Autodelete comes into play, they can have their cookie, but it will be thrown away the second their site is closed.
So you can use mode 2 for less annoyance and still throw them in the garbage
Some US news websites still geoblock European visitors rather than fix their site to not track the ever loving fuck out of visitors who say no. So imagine what they’re doing to their domestic visitors.
I liked it when some news sites did plain text only if you didn’t accept cookies. So no cookies, no ads and don’t have to deal with your crappy css? Why would I ever accept that? It was wonderful.
See our legitimate partners (1724)…
I don’t want my data sent to 1724 partners just because i am curious to see what that click bait of a title really meant
I think the moral of the story is don’t fall for clickbait
how certain are you that this will truly block them all? Many of these things may have a “Legitimate interest” thing going on, and I do not trust those prompts to object to that by pressing “reject all”
RON SWANSON: I reject all cookies.
Wait, I don’t think I was clear enough. I didn’t ask to reject a lot of cookies. I reject all cookies.
legitimate interest is still not a valid legal basis for data collection/tracking in Europe, so it’s not that big of an issue (…but it still allows them to do more they usually can without “legitimate interest”). also most tracking scripts and cookies will be blocked by uBlock anyway
I think they will break laws (in countries with basic respect for human right) if they don’t have that option.
My favorite banner is from geizhals.de that only says “We recognize you set “Do not track” and we respect that.”
Edit: autocorrect corrected
Yeah, my university’s intranet (and I believe also their homepage, but I’m not sure) has the same
Too bad the “do not track” message makes you easier to track on every other website
uBlock origin on Firefox blocks almost all tracking sites. You can enable cookies or disable them, it doesn’t matter because they aren’t sent anywhere. Unless the site has some homebrew tracking solution.
Istilldontcareaboutcookies + cookieautodelete - you da real mvp
Haha Consent-o-Matic go brrr
ITT a horde of people who don’t know that http is stateless. Cookies are the easiest and least intrusive way to maintain your session.
And those are allowed under GDPR as necessary cookies
No prompt needed even
Also an easy way to store needed variables between pages. For news sites without a sign up this isn’t necessary but for actual web apps that live across different subdomains it can be a nice to have.
✅ Delete cookies and site data when Firefox is closed
How do you delete data that’s already transferred to their servers while you visit the page? You don’t need a cookie to uniquely identify a user.
Every browser can do that. Some can delete cookies when closing a tab or even when leaving a domain for another.
You can also enable the easy list for cookies in uBlock Origin. It misses some but for the most part it works.
I’ve had that running for a while now, sadly some sites give you the option “accept all cookies” or “deny all by getting a monthly subscription” which if using this extension will automatically redirect you.
Aside from that little downside it has made browsing so much better.
